Remipedia

Remipedes
Temporal range: Lower Pennsylvanian–Recent
Speleonectes tanumekes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Superclass: Allotriocarida
Class: Remipedia
J. Yager 1981
Orders & families
  • †Enantiopoda
    • †Tesnusocarididae
  • Nectiopoda

Remipedia is a class of blind crustaceans, closely related to hexapods, found in coastal aquifers which contain saline groundwater, with populations identified in almost every ocean basin so far explored, including in Australia, the Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean. The first described remipede was the fossil Tesnusocaris goldichi (Lower Pennsylvanian). Since 1979, at least seventeen living species have been identified in subtropical regions around the world.[1]

  1. ^ Stefan Koenemann; Frederick R. Schram; Mario Hönemann & Thomas M. Iliffe (2007). "Phylogenetic analysis of Remipedia (Crustacea)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 7 (1): 33–51. Bibcode:2007ODivE...7...33K. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2006.07.001.